[redpoll]

The culture of the people in a place often has no relation to an organized cabal who, in essence, hijack it. I’ve often heard that the Indonesians are easy-going folks who are the most tolerant in all of Islam. That won’t prevent a small group of tyrants from assuming control.

[muawiyah]

The Javanese are pretty peaceful, as Indonesians go. The Dutch were more ferocious of course and were able to take the place from the Thais back in the early 1600s.

On the other hand, much of what is now Indonesia was inpenetrable jungle up to a hundred years ago.